Today we made pie, which we were too full to eat tonight. Pie for breakfast, anyone? Today I did some cleaning. Not the dusting, which I should have done, but laundry and a bathroom. The dust is getting out of hand. It's not just that it looks bad, but when the cats walk around sneezing, you know it's time. Typical laundry list for a Sunday.
But I started outlining the rewrite for my historical novel and finished it up this evening. I'm separating out the two plot lines which kept tripping over each other and never coming together. I picked one plot line and stuck with that. I shortened the timeline. One of the problems was that the two plots wanted radically different pacing. One needed to take place over a few days to make any sense at all, while the other wanted a few weeks. Of course they couldn't work concurrently! I reduced the number of characters and fiddled with their backstories. Crowds might be more realistic, but they're awfully hard to juggle.
This new version will be shorter and I may be able to recycle some of the scenes from the early version. It's not like I'm going to have to write a whole other novel. Not exactly.
I think I've got it all together now. I should . start writing.
224 words | January 22, 2006 11:07 PM | Writer's block